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ELLIS, FREDERICK EDWARD, brother of Henry John Ellis (qv); b. 5 Feb 1853; adm. 25 Sep 1862; QS 1867; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1871, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1871, but did not reside; temp. clerk, Librarian’s Office, Foreign Office 22 Jul 1872; clerk in Chief Clerk’s Department 15 May 1873, 2nd cl. Clerk 1 Dec 1882, 1st cl. Clerk 18 Oct 1888, retired on pension 1 Aug 1913; re-employed as temp. clerk 1 Jan 1917. [unm. in 1881]

ELLIS, HENRY JOHN, eldest son of Frederick Charles Ellis, Mortlake, Surrey, civil servant, and Lucy Ellen, sister of Henry William Bidwell (qv); grandson of Sir Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian, British Museum; b. 6 Jun 1851; adm. 27 Sep 1861; QS 1866; left May 1868; employed Manuscripts Department, British Museum May 1872 - Aug 1912; m. 9 Jan 1896 Margaret Caroline, eldest dau. of Roger Leigh MP, Barham Court, Maidstone, Kent; d. 3 Jan 1926.

Ellis, Jack Gilbey, son of Alfred Arthur Ellis, of Regents Park; b. Jan. 21, 1900; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (H); left July 1916.

ELLIS, JOHN GERRARD, eldest son of Rev. John Ellis, Prebendary of Ripon, and Philippa, dau. of Thomas Salter (adm. 1720, qv); bapt. 17 Jun 1783; adm. 22 Feb 1797 (Clapham); KS (aged 14) 1797; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1801, matr. 15 May 1801, Westminster Student; BA 1806; MA 1808; d. 10 Dec 1824.

ELLIS, JOHN, eldest son of Rev. John Ellis, Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks., and Susannah, dau. of William Welbore, Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1660; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1664, matr. 22 Jul 1664, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1664-81, Faculty Student from 1681; BA 1668; MA 1672 (both degrees in College Act Book, not in University records); employed in Secretary of State’s Office and State Paper Office; Secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins at Conference of Nijmegen 1675-7; Secretary to Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory 1678-80 and to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 1680-2; Secretary to Commissioners of Revenue, Ireland 1682-9; a Commissioner of Transports; Under Secretary of State May 1695 - May 1705; Comptroller of the Mint 23 May 1701-11; MP Harwich 1702-8; two volumes of his correspondence were edited by George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (qv); at the time of his death he had been a Student of Christ Church for over seventy-three years; d. unm. 8 Jul 1738. DNB.

Ellis, Kenneth Leslie, brother of David Stuart Ellis (qv); b. 31 May 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left July 1942; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1942, Foreign Office 1943-5; BA (1st class hons Mod. Hist. ) 1949, MA 1949, DPhil 1954; lecturer in Mod. Hist. Univ. of Durham; contested (Cons. ) Durham North-West 1964; author, The Post Office in the Eighteenth Century 1958; m. 29 June 1969 Mary Ivonna, d. of Edward Hughes, Prof. of History Univ. of Durham; d. 6 Oct. 1979.

ELLIS, PHILIP (in religion, MICHAEL), brother of John Ellis (KS 1660, qv); b. 1652; adm.; KS 1667; a Roman Catholic convert; professed as Benedictine monk at Douai 30 Nov 1670; ordained; a missionary priest in England; Chaplain to James II; Vicar Apostolic of Western division of England 30 Jan 1687/8; consecrated Bishop of Aureliopolis (in partibus) at Chapel Royal, St. James’s, 6 May 1688; arrested and imprisoned in Newgate at outbreal of revolution of 1688, but soon afterwards released and went abroad; living in Rome by 1693; not being able to discharge his duties as Vicar Apostolic, he resigned c. 1705; Bishop of Segni, Italy, from 3 Oct 1708; d. at Segni 16 Nov 1726. DNB.

ELLIS, RALPH ARTHUR FREDERICK WILLIAM, eldest surviving son of Carteret John William Ellis (qv); b. Belgium 3 Aug 1833; adm. 29 Jan 1847 (Rigaud's); left Christmas 1847; at Addiscombe Coll. 1849-50; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1850; Ensign, unattached 9 Dec 1850; 56th Bengal Native Infantry 5 Mar 1851; 18th Native Infantry 28 May 1852; Lieut., 24 Oct 1854; retired 9 Jun 1858; m. 1st, 2 Feb 1869 Caroline Alice, widow of Lieut. G. [or E (dward) ?] Stevenson, 3rd Bengal European Regt.; m. 2nd, 2 Feb 1878 Ella A. M. A., second dau. of William C[harles ?] C[lifford ?] Bramwell, Oxford; d. 28 Jan 1915. [first wife perhaps Caroline Alicia Addison, who m. 9 Nov 1861 Edward Stevenson (IGI)]

ELLIS, SAMUEL, brother of John Ellis (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1665; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 May 1669; Marshal of the King’s Bench 1688; fled from England at the revolution of 1688.

Ellis, Streater, son of Ralph Arthur Frederick William Ellis (q.v.) by his 2nd wife; b. Feb. 12, 1888; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left July 1905; Corporal 3rd Regt. Australian Light Horse Aug. 24, 1914; served at Gallipoli and Egypt in Great War I.